Severe Weather Alert: PDS Tornado Watch for Oklahoma

Severe weather threatens Oklahoma tonight, with a high risk of tornadoes and intense storms expected.

### Severe Weather Alert: PDS Tornado Watch and High Tornado Risk in Oklahoma
* ⚠ A Particularly Dangerous Situation (PDS) tornado watch will be issued soon, indicating a **high risk for severe weather** in the Oklahoma City metro and surrounding areas.
* 🌪 Intense storms are expected to move into the region later this evening, with the potential for **long-track tornadoes** due to **strong storm rotation**.
* 🕛 The tornado index is extremely high, rated at a **ten for Oklahoma City**, indicating a **significant threat** that will last into the **overnight hours**.
* 🌩 Residents from Pauls Valley to Seminole and up towards Woodward should be aware of the **moderate risk**, while those in the metro area face a **higher risk**.
* 📈 The timeline for storm development suggests that severe weather could start impacting the area as early as **3:00 PM**, with tornado warnings likely around **7:00 PM** for specific locations.
* 💨 Powerful winds and the possibility of **hail up to the size of softballs** are also significant threats associated with these storms.
* 🔍 It is crucial for residents to prepare and have a **safety plan in place**, as the storms will intensify as low-level winds increase later in the evening.
* 📅 The severe weather is expected to persist until approximately **2:00 AM**, making it imperative to **stay informed and vigilant throughout the night**.

KOCO FIVE, FIRST ALERT. WEATHER SEVERE WEATHER UPDATE. IT IS CURRENTLY 12:38 ON THIS MONDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE. WE ARE OBVIOUSLY TRACKING A SIGNIFICANT THREAT FOR SEVERE WEATHER AS WE GO INTO THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS. I WANT TO GIVE YOU AN UPDATE ON JUST WHAT IS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW, AND THEN HOW THE REST OF THE DAY IS GOING TO UNFOLD ACROSS OKLAHOMA HERE. SO RIGHT NOW, THE RADAR IS LOOKING JUST FINE ACROSS CENTRAL, WESTERN OKLAHOMA. WE'RE DOING OKAY. ALL OF OUR STORM CHASERS ON THE GROUND UP IN THE AIR. THEY'RE HEADED INTO WESTERN OKLAHOMA BECAUSE THAT IS WHERE THE THREAT WILL BEGIN IN JUST A COUPLE OF HOURS. OKAY. LET ME HEAD ON OVER TO OUR

WEATHER GRAPHICS HERE. AND I'LL SHOW YOU WHAT WE'RE GOING TO BE DEALING WITH FOR THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS. SO, IT HASN'T COME OUT YET, BUT A PDS TORNADO WATCH WILL BE ISSUED SOON, PROBABLY SOMETIME IN THE NEXT 15 MINUTES OR SO. THAT WILL INCLUDE THE OKC METRO, PONCA CITY, DOWN TO PAULS VALLEY, AND ALL OF WESTERN OKLAHOMA. WHAT EXACTLY IS A PDS TORNADO WATCH? THAT STANDS FOR PARTICULARLY DANGEROUS SITUATION. THAT IS A HIGH-END TORNADO WATCH. AND OBVIOUSLY, WE KNOW THAT BECAUSE THE RISK FOR TODAY REMAINS HIGH FOR OKLAHOMA CITY, STILLWATER, PONCA CITY, DOWN TOWARDS CHICKASHA, AND ANADARKO. THESE DAYS ARE QUITE RARE TO SEE.

ON A SCALE OF 1 TO 5, THIS IS A FIVE. AND REALLY, I MEAN, IF YOU ARE UNDER ANY FORM OF A RISK FOR TODAY, THEN YOU NEED TO BE VERY MUCH WELL AWARE OF THE WEATHER THAT IS GOING TO BE MOVING IN FOR YOU. PAULS VALLEY TO SEMINOLE DOWN TOWARDS HOLDENVILLE. YOU'RE IN A MODERATE RISK, WHICH IS STILL A VERY BIG DEAL AS WELL. UP TOWARDS WOODWARD, CEILING DOWN TOWARDS ELK CITY AND HANDS TO MODERATE RISK AS WELL. BUT ONCE AGAIN, A HIGH RISK FOR ALL OF THE METRO UP TO ENID PERRY STILLWATER CHANDLER. THIS IS GOING TO LAST PRETTY LATE INTO THE EVENING HERE. SO OUR TORNADO INDEX IS AS HIGH AS IT CAN GET. IT IS AT A TEN FOR OKC UP

TOWARDS PONCA CITY. THAT'S CONSIDERED VERY HIGH. BASICALLY, ALL OF OKLAHOMA HAS A VERY SIZABLE TORNADO THREAT, EXCEPT OUT ACROSS THE FAR WESTERN OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE. SO, THAT'S DEFINITELY GOING TO BE A VERY DANGEROUS AFTERNOON, A VERY DANGEROUS NIGHT THAT WE'RE GOING TO BE WATCHING. WHEN IT COMES TO WIND, WIND IS CERTAINLY GOING TO BE PRETTY POWERFUL AS WELL IN THESE CELLS. AND THE THREAT FOR HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF SOFTBALLS FOR OKLAHOMA CITY, GUTHRIE, STILLWATER, ALVA, WOODWARD, CLINTON, AND DOWN TOWARDS HOBART HERE. SO, LET ME SHOW YOU THE TIMELINE. VERY IMPORTANT, NOT ONLY THE TIMELINE WHEN STORMS ARE GOING TO COME IN, BUT WHEN YOU NEED TO

BEGIN TO WRAP THINGS UP BECAUSE IT LOOKS LIKE WE'RE NOT THAT FAR OFF FROM AT LEAST OUR FIRST CELLS BEGINNING TO DEVELOP SOMETIME, RIGHT AROUND TWO AND 3:00. WE'LL SEE A FEW STORMS BEGIN TO BUBBLE UP FROM, SAY, WATONGA, UP TOWARDS MEDFORD AND OUT TOWARDS ENID, AND THEN OUT TOWARDS BUFFALO AND WOODWARD. THESE STORMS ARE CERTAINLY GOING TO BE PRETTY IMPACTFUL, BUT SO ARE THESE. SO WE'LL HAVE TWO ZONES TO WATCH RIGHT AROUND 4:00 AS FAR SOUTH AS EL RENO UP TOWARDS ENID AND MEDFORD. AND THEN AS YOU GO OUT TOWARDS BUFFALO, ALVA WOODWARD AND DOWN TOWARDS CHEYENNE. NOW THE THREAT FOR TORNADOES WILL CERTAINLY BE THERE WITH

THESE STORMS, BUT AS WE APPROACH SUNSET, THE LOW LEVEL WINDS ARE GOING TO REALLY BEGIN TO RAMP UP, WHICH MEANS THAT THESE STORMS ARE GOING TO REALLY BEGIN TO INTENSIFY HERE. SO HSO HERE WE ARE AT FIVE AND X AND TEN CELLS FROM ALVA TO MEDFORD, DOWN TOWARDS WATONGA AND CLINTON. ALL OF THESE STORMS RIGHT HERE WILL HAVE A VERY GOOD, GOOD CHANCE OF BEING TORNADO WARNED. SO WHEN WOULD YOU BE IN A TORNADO WARNING? MEDFORD, WATONGA DOWN TOWARDS CLINTON RIGHT AROUND 7:00 AND THEN BY 8:00, WATCHING THESE STORMS ADVANCE TO THE EAST PONCA CITY, 9:00 PERRY STILLWATER, DOWN TOWARDS KINGFISHER AND WATONGA. AND THEN WATCH AS THESE STORMS

REALLY BEGIN TO RAMP UP AS THE LOW-LEVEL WINDS BEGIN TO FEED INTO THEM, AND THEN WATCH WHAT HAPPENS IN THE METRO. AFTER ABOUT 10:00, WE'RE GOING TO WATCH STORMS BEGIN TO DEVELOP RIGHT ON TOP OF PIEDMONT AND EDMOND BY TEN AND 11:00. BACK DOWN TOWARDS EL RENO. AND THESE STORMS ARE GOING TO HAVE AN INCREASING TORNADO POTENTIAL WITH THEM AS THE LOW-LEVEL WINDS WILL BE FEEDING RIGHT INTO THEM. SO THEN AT AROUND MIDNIGHT, IT'S CHANDLER, OKLAHOMA CITY, MOORE, NORMAN, DOWN TOWARDS PURCELL, LEXINGTON, AND THEN DROPPING AS FAR SOUTH AS PAULS VALLEY BY 1 A.M. SEMINOLE TO HOLDENVILLE BY 2 A.M. AND THEN THE STORMS BEGIN TO LIFT OUT OF HERE.

NOW, I WANT YOU TO SEE HERE THE STORMS THAT ARE GOING TO BE ROTATING HERE, BECAUSE ALL OF THESE STORMS ARE GOING TO HAVE CERTAINLY SOME PRETTY STRONG ROTATION IN THEM. SO, UH, WHAT THIS GRAPHIC RIGHT HERE WILL SHOW YOU IS JUST HOW LONG THESE STORMS ARE GOING TO BE ROTATING AS THEY MOVE IN, WHICH IS WHY WE ARE CONCERNED ABOUT THE THREAT FOR LONG TRACK SEVERE TORNADOES. SO WHERE YOU SEE THE BLACK IS WHERE WE'RE GOING TO HAVE THE MOST SIGNIFICANT ROTATING CELLS. THAT'S WATONGA TO STILLWATER. AND THEN THESE NEW STORMS THAT WILL BE GOING UP OVER THE METRO BY TEN AND 11:00 WILL BE ROTATING AS THEY COME IN HERE. SO WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO WATCH THEM FOR MOORE AROUND MIDNIGHT.

TOWARDS, UH, STROUD DOWN TOWARDS SHAWNEE AND SEMINOLE BY ONE 2 A.M. AND THEN STORMS ROTATING AS THEY MOVE DOWN TO THE EAST. HERE BY TWO AND 3 A.M. SO DEFINITELY A VERY LONG AND IMPACTFUL NIGHT OF SEVERE WEATHER. THE WEATHER IS QUIET FOR NOW, SO USE THIS TIME TO AT LEAST PUT YOUR, YOU KNOW, PUT YOUR PLAN TOGETHER. LUTHER MAKE SURE YOU HAVE YOUR PLAN. NO NEED TO ACTIVATE IT YET, BUT JUST MAKE SURE THAT YOU KNOW WHAT TO DO. SHOULD A TORNADO WARNING BE ISSUED AGAIN, STORMS WILL FORM AS EARLY AS 3:00. NOW FOR THE OKLAHOMA CITY METRO. THIS IS PRETTY EARLY. I'M SAYING BE HOME BY 6:00 ONLY BECAUSE WE ARE GOING TO HAVE

SOME STORMS JUST WEST OF TOWN. BUT REALLY, A BULK OF THESE STORMS WILL BE MOVING IN UNTIL MUCH LATER. AND I DON'T I DON'T WANT YOU OUT. CERTAINLY YOU KNOW, COMING IN LAST MINUTE. I KNOW THESE STORMS ARE NOT GOING TO MOVE UNTIL A LITTLE BIT LATER INTO THE EVENING, BUT JUST GIVE YOU A HEADS UP AS TO, YOU KNOW, KIND OF WATCHING THESE STORMS MOVE IN RATHER THAN JUST GETTING IN AS THE STORMS ARE DEVELOPING. OTHERWISE, THESE INTENSE STORMS ARE GOING TO BE LASTING UNTIL WELL INTO THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. THIS IS AN ALL HANDS ON DECK. ALL OF OUR CHASERS ARE GOING TO BE OUT. WE WILL BE HERE TO MAKE SURE THAT YOU HAVE ACCURATE, IMPORTANT INFORMATION TO HELP

YOU MAKE LIFE-SAVING DECISIONS FOR THIS EVENING AGAIN. UH, PDS TORNADO WATCH WILL BE ISSUED SOON. IT HASN'T COME OUT YET, BUT IT WILL BE COMING OUT.

PDS tornado watch expected to be issued for Monday's Oklahoma storms

KOCO 5 News

A PDS Tornado Watch, indicating a particularly dangerous situation, will be issued soon for the OKC metro and western Oklahoma.

The risk for severe weather is high, with storms expected to rotate and move eastward through the night.

Residents are advised to prepare their emergency plans as storms may form as early as 3:00 AM.

Oklahoma is facing a high risk of severe weather, with a tornado index at its maximum for OKC.

The moderate risk areas include Pauls Valley, Seminole, Woodward, and Elk City.

The severe weather threat is expected to last into the evening, with storm chasers deployed to western Oklahoma where the threat will begin soon.

Oklahoma is facing a significant tornado threat, especially in the eastern and central regions, with the western panhandle being the exception.

The storms are expected to bring powerful winds and hail up to the size of softballs in areas like Oklahoma City, Guthrie, and Stillwater.

The timeline for storm development begins around 2-3 PM, with two zones of impact to watch by 4 PM.

Low-level winds are ramping up, causing storms to intensify from Alva to Medford, Watonga, and Clinton.

Tornado warnings are expected for these areas around 7:00 PM, with the storms advancing eastward and impacting Ponca City by 9:00 PM.

The metro area will see storm development by 10:00 PM, with increasing tornado potential, and the storms will move southward, affecting Chandler, Oklahoma City, and Moore by midnight.

A PDS tornado watch will be issued soon as intense storms move in from the west.

These storms are expected to last well into the overnight hours, with strong rotation increasing the risk of long-track severe tornadoes.

The most significant rotating cells will impact areas from Watonga to Stillwater, with the metro experiencing rotation by 10 and 11 PM.